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    Utility best practices for mitigation and response to fire storms.

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    Strategies to Mitigate Wildfire Risk

    July 29, 2024
    By combining equipment upgrades, like current limiting protectors, with a distribution automation system, utilities can mitigate risk.
    Podcasts

    Line Life Podcast: ICYMI: Cutting Wildfire Risk

    June 28, 2024
    In this audio story, Southern California Edison shares its multi-layered approach to mitigating the wildfire challenge.
    Photo by Korea Electric Power Corp.
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    KEPCO Monitors Wildfires with AI in Korea

    June 24, 2024
    The utility’s wildfire detection system uses its existing transmission infrastructure and analyzes images with artificial intelligence.
    Photo by Classic Connectors.
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    Integrate DLR and EEMS for a Future-Ready Grid

    May 30, 2024
    Will the implementation of dynamic line rating and engineered electrical mechanical shunt technologies aid in increasing transmission conductor capacity?
    Grid hardening with covered conductor, wildlife covers, fire resistant wrapped wood pole, etc. Photo by SCE
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    SCE Reduces Faults, Lowers Risk of Wildfire Ignitions

    May 2, 2024
    SCE's multi-layered approach effectively mitigates the wildfire challenge.

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    Resources

    Wildfire Risk Mitigation

    Feb. 16, 2022
    Learn about the tools and practices that minimize power equipment caused fires.
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    PG&E Energizes More Than 800 Miles of Underground Powerlines in High Wildfire-Risk Areas

    Nov. 19, 2024
    PG&E plans to complete an additional 330 miles of undergrounding in 2025 and another 440 miles in 2026 in the highest wildfire-risk portions of the company's service area.
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    Hawaiian Electric’s Wildfire Risk Mitigation Actions and Programs Reduce Risk of Wildfire by About 60%

    Nov. 14, 2024
    In 2024, Hawaiian Electric is spending about $120 million to make wildfire safety improvements and is also developing a longer-term wildfire safety plan to be filed with the PUC...
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    Vegetation Management

    Spotlight on UVM: Trees & Utilities Celebrates 25 Years in Texas

    Sept. 17, 2024
    About 1,200 attendees connected in Fort Worth, Texas, for the event organized by the UAA and the Arbor Day Foundation.
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    How Climate Adaptation Technologies Can Blunt the Impact of a Perpetual Stream of Blazes

    Aug. 13, 2024
    It would seem we are off to another rollicking “wildfire season.” But wildfire season as we know it no longer exists.